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I have a Dell XPS 15 and have a dual boot setup with ubuntu 16 and windows 10. It was working fine then one day randomly ubuntu stopped loading and i started getting the error:

[ 2.597747] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown chipset (137000a1)
Gave up waiting for root device. Common Problems..

I have tried adding nouveau to the blocklist to no avail. When i load ubuntu live via a usb it doesnt detect my partitions. I have tried sudo fdisk -l and testdisk aswell. When i try viewing the partitions on my windows OS they seem to work fine.

How do i fix this?

Aymen Rizwan
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  • Not really relevant, but are you booting UEFI or Legacy? – DankyNanky Jul 31 '17 at 12:32
  • @MichaelNancarrow not really sure how do i check – Aymen Rizwan Jul 31 '17 at 12:38
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    Perhaps try to bypass the issue with the following: https://askubuntu.com/questions/38780/how-do-i-set-nomodeset-after-ive-already-installed-ubuntu then perform an update, driver check etc. – DankyNanky Jul 31 '17 at 12:41
  • already tried, it doesnt work (iv mentioned this in my question) – Aymen Rizwan Jul 31 '17 at 16:39
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    If Ubuntu worked before, I don't know why this would have changed for you, but enter your BIOS and see if your disk is setup for RAID. If so, that's probably your problem. Did you do a BIOS reset to factory recently? – heynnema Jul 31 '17 at 17:36
  • Are you able to default to onboard graphics and then load appropriate drivers for your GPU? (Assuming you're using a GPU) – DankyNanky Jul 31 '17 at 22:01

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